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The tail of a horse. The tail of the horse and other equines consists of two parts, the dock and the skirt. The dock consists of the muscles and skin covering the coccygeal vertebrae. The term "skirt" refers to the long hairs that fall below the dock. On a horse, long, thick tail hairs begin to grow at the base of the tail, and grow along the ...
Points of a horse. Equine anatomy encompasses the gross and microscopic anatomy of horses, ponies and other equids, including donkeys, mules and zebras.While all anatomical features of equids are described in the same terms as for other animals by the International Committee on Veterinary Gross Anatomical Nomenclature in the book Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, there are many horse-specific ...
The cauda equina (from Latin tail of horse) is a bundle of spinal nerves and spinal nerve rootlets, consisting of the second through fifth lumbar nerve pairs, the first through fifth sacral nerve pairs, and the coccygeal nerve, all of which arise from the lumbar enlargement and the conus medullaris of the spinal cord.
A woman has been arrested after allegedly pulling the tail of a horse, causing its 5-year-old rider to tumble off and break his leg, according to reports. On Sunday, Feb. 23, Meri Fuerte said she ...
A San Francisco woman, accused of pulling a horse’s tail, leading to a five-year-old boy being left bruised and injured after being bucked from the animal, was arrested last weekend.. Tomasa ...
Police have arrested a San Francisco woman suspected of yanking a horse's tail and causing a young rider to be chucked off in a wild encounter that has since become a viral video.. On Monday, the ...
1. The muscular portion of a horse's tail, where the hair is rooted. Sometimes refers only to the upper portion of this area, where the tail attaches to the hindquarters. [1]: 63 2. Docking: to cut a horse's tail at the dock, seen most often on carriage horses to keep the tails from becoming caught in the harness.
A horse length, or simply length, is a unit of measurement for the length of a horse from nose to tail, approximately 8 feet (2.4 m). [1] Use in horse racing.